Need help

Ok heres the deal. There is a site www.lop.com
this site takes over my screen every time a page doesnt load or an error occurs. I ran adware to see if there was a program but no ads. I deleted my cookies and removed my history and cleaned out all temp files. but this site still shows its ugly head. I first noticed it yesterday when I saw my links where changed and my home page was reset to that site. I wrote them a nasty little note and told them if they dont send me info on how to remove it I was going to report them. So if you have any Idea how to remove this portal I would be in your debt. Thanks.

I know this may seem stupid but did you run a virus scan?

i 'crawled' their site, download their page without opening it, just in case.

is this a porn site?

they have anchors for links named hardware, buissness, travel services that point the ip address for fla2.XXXSTORAGE.COM, this way cheap porn blockers can't catch it. these links are mixed in with 'normal' links on their site. certain search words also point to 65.89.43.53

i really don't tink your threats are gonna mean **** to these bozos.

Registrant:
C2, Media Limited
Pobox 20317
London, NW11 9ZG
UK

meant to be confused with C2 Media.com Ny, ny <their defense is in the comma>

use an av scanner
ad-aware
search your reg for lop.com and 65.89.43.189

Looks like a "Portal" site. Perhaps it is a javascript?
I think i have experienced something like what you are, ghost. But it was with yahoo, and wasn't quite so obtrusive.

OK I did do a virus scan no virii was found. also did a adware search no adware detected, did search for lop and no such thing found except for the cookie I found and deleted.

It could be a restoritive cookie and might come back each time page is loaded. Happens alot.

Make a Search in your Registry for "www.microsoft.com". I did a quick search in my registry and found out that a few keys under /Key_Local_Machine/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main control the address where your browers look-up when a page doesnt load or an error occurs.

If the Key Default_Page_Url, Default_Search_Ur, Search PAge, Start Page have www.lop.com for data, then change it back to whatever you want.

Hope it help.. :)

Yea this happened to me as well although not with the same site. The registry can be a crual mistress when working against you. Search the registry and delete all the lop.com things and you should be fine. Also something to look for if you have NT look and see if there is a webpage in your IIS that could be loading as your default webpage for either your homepage or your 127.0.1.1. When I got the nimda virus there was for a few days a webpage in my IIS telling me that China sucked. Probly wont be anything there but worth a look.

I like to thank SKD, I totaly forgot to check my reg. I also sent lop.com a message warning them not to pull crap like that again or else. I even sent them there ports that where open and told them the name of there OS to scare them. But again thats to all for the help.

LOL 'You better not mess with me Mr.65.89.43.53, You dont scare me with your fancy Windows95..... Oh, and I would close ports 21,23 and 553 ;)'
Hehe

Acid spectrum, a question for you : Do you fancy teaching someone how is willing to learn the skills needed to use toolz? i know this is doubtful but im running out of files to read and getting tired of reading things that dont make sense to me!

Well that sounds like a frustrating problem. I am no expert on these things for sure, but your post did trigger a thought about something I read recently. A virus called js.iestart.gen. It changes your IE start page, by altering your registry.
Here's a link to th Mcaffee info page.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99066.htm

This little diddy tried to get me a couple of times, but my virus program nabbed it in time. Both times it had lodged itself in my temporary internet files. It came from just browsing.

Good Luck

Dragonseye

i think the problem is solved, and SDK must change his name with SKD

Why change my name to SKD? :) I don't think JP will allow that?

Number 1 what does sdk stand for and number 2 what would it stand for if you changed it to skd? or is that supposed to say skid? (no offence ment sdk)

SDK = Software Development Kit

Found it cool 5 years ago and use it since then for handle on ther Internet. Pretty funny how many peoples ask me the meaning. Espacilly people in computer industry.